1 1 •_> F. H. Gravely. 



Omegarius pumilio (Kaup). 



Eedescribed from specimens from Amboina, Bat j an, Ceram, Waigiou, 

 „Malacca" (which must be a mistake for Molncca), Wendesi (western 



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Fig. 3 B. 

 Head of Omegarius pumilio (KAUP). 1. 



Dutch New Guinea), Fly River (British New Guinea) and Erima Wald in 

 Kaiser- Wilhelms-Land (German New Guinea). 



Length 19— 22 mm. This species does not appear to differ from 

 tlie preceeding in any constant character except the form of the mandibles 

 described in the above key. The lamellae of the antennae appear to 

 be on the whole a little slenderer, but the difference is not always very 

 marked. 



List of Literature referred to. 



1871. KAUP, J. J. „Monographie der Passaliden." Berlin. Ent. Zeitschr., XV, 1.S71, 



Supplement, pp. 1 — 125, pl. III — VII. 

 1898. KUWERT, A. „Die Passaliden dichotomisch bearbeitet. Pt. IV." Novit, Zool., V 



1898, pp. 259-349. 

 1905. ZANG, R. „Diagnosen neuer Passaliden." Deutsche Ent. Zeitschr. 1905. pp. 315 



bis 316. 

 1910. HELLER, K. M. „Fünfter Beitrag zur papuanisehen Käferfauna." Abh. u. Ber. 

 Kgl. Zool. u. Anthr.-Ethn. Mus. Dresden, XIII (3), 1910, 42 pp., 1 pl 

 1913. GRAVELY, F. H. „A Revision of the Oriental Passalidae." Mein. Ind. Mus., III. 

 (In the press.) 



Eingegangen am 3. Septembei L913. 



